Social Aspects Of A Person 's Social Location

There are many factors that have contributed to my social location. The main ones that come to mind are my social class, my racial background, and my education. All around us are people who come from different areas of the world, or same areas of the world with very different demographics.

Social location is the combination of social factors which locate someone in society (Henslin,2013, pg. 4). Social location includes: Sex/Gender,

Currently, people within our society are predominantly divided by the groups they identify with or with how they are identified by others. These identities are defined by our social location. Social location includes our gender, race, ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation, and religion (Hutchison, 2011). In this paper, I will take a close look at my social location and attempt to describe how it affects my way of living and my professional life.

My social location a 43-year-old Latino man, born and raised in a Pentecostal family in Puerto Rico (United States of America Territory or kind of Colony). The first and oldest child of Puertorrican mother and immigrant catholic Mexican father. Even though I am the "second” of 6 children of my father and a younger sister from my mother side. In between of this complexity and my Christian leaders’ family, my opinion on family decisions is important, my advice in different matters and I am valued for the oldest I am. My social position as middle class defines my life as a Spanish-Latino educated and experienced in United States. Although as Puertorrican with a B.A. in Administration, I grew-up thinking as American but when I came to U.S.A in 2006 to live, here I realized Latino in

Gender roles are developed in the overall spectrum throughout society. This is often developed by children and guided by society by through approval and disapproval of certain actions. This includes actions such as society telling boys that playing with dolls is “girly” (CH. 10.). Society develops these roles, and people that break them are often seen as different and outsiders. These also develop in the society of sport, where values have been traditionally associated with males. As men often did studies with sports, there was

Social location, or the status in life that people have because of their place in a society, have a huge impact on everyone. The impact that social location created could be neutral, but most of the time it will have a positive or negative impact on people. For example, an African American could be discriminated because of his ethnicity, or a patient will choose an older doctor when he needs a treatment. Different social location that we have will affect our decisions in everyday life, and most of the time it happened subconsciously, which means we don’t realize that the decisions we make are based on our social location. Like everyone else, I was affected by my own social location, both positively and negatively.

Additionally, my parent’s substantial economic and social capital was a great asset in my career path of finding a better education outside of my community. Professor Abrego explains that one’s social location shapes an individual’s identity and how one experiences how the world treats them (Abrego, Lecture 01/06/16). In my case, there were not as many resources that my social location offered, for this reason, my mother was determined to find another high school for me to attend, away from South Central. To emphasize, my local high school carried a bad reputation of teen pregnancy, gang violence, and lacked many resources, therefore, due to my mother’s strong social capital she managed to obtain a fake address in order for me to attend a better

You throw like a girl! Boys don’t play with dolls! Living in our society, I am certain that one or more of these little stereotypes have crossed your path. As we grow, who or what defines what we are to become based on our gender, and what role do we have to play in it? Using gender roles, gender identity, and stereotypes associated with these I will provide you a brief insight into what shaped me into the woman that I have become.

Currently, people within our society are mainly divided by the groups they identify with or with how they are identified by others. These identities are defined by our social location. Social location includes our gender, race, ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation, and religion (Hutchison, 2011). In this paper, I will take a close look at my social location and attempt to describe how it affects my way of living and my professional life.

As a young man, while living and working with various ethnicities, I learned that certain elements of social location cannot be altered and this can affect our reality. It has been my personal experience that the social location of a particular group of people may generate a very different set of values and beliefs for them to a group in a different social location. Thus, this principle can help us to better understand our worldview and its effects on the way we view and interpret other cultures.

When I begin to think about social location I instantly think about where I’m from, and where I was raised. Social location means much more than that. It is your race, age, sex, social class, religion, sexual orientation, and so much more. Social location varies from person to person and everyone plays their own role in their social location lifestyle.

Social location is the “different social corners of life that people occupy because of where they are in a society. Social location includes things like your job, income, education, gender, race, religion, nationality and age.” (page 4) My social location mainly includes my education, nationality, and age.

When my parents first moved to the United States, my mother was a homemaker, while my father worked as a bartender. However, once my brothers were born, it was necessary for my mother to work also in order for my family to survive. Although my mother was working in order to help her family, my grandma and elderly aunts constantly said she was a bad mother for leaving her kids alone for many hours. Because I constantly heard other women criticize my mother, I developed a bias that a woman was a bad mother if she did not stay home with her children. Another bias I developed due to my experiences in the past is the idea that girls are not good at playing sports. When I was a young girl, my brothers were allowed to play sports, skateboard, and ride bicycles, but I was told that girls are not allowed to do these same activities. In addition to this, in elementary school, boys and girls were often split into two groups during gym class. The boys would learn how to play games such as soccer, basketball, and football. In contrast, girls were taught how to play hopscotch, jump rope, and juggle. Because of these experiences, I believed that girls were not allowed to play sports because they simply were not good at them, and only boys could play

Furthermore, the atmosphere around you, your peers, and your family all affect how you behave in public. For instance, in It’s a Girl Thing it says that, “children’s interests are instilled socially, meaning their interests are determined by society, family, and peers.” This is saying that children choose what they want to do based on what society tells them they should do. This can cause children to not believe in themselves and show off who they truly are because of what people will think of them. Likewise, in No Boys Allowed it states, “Boys team receives more attention, while the girls’ team is thought to be inferior.” This means that because girls are thought to be less athletic than boys, girl sports teams don’t receive as much attention

While basketball had an extremely big influence on my gender identity, growing up in a house of predominantly women; myself, my mother, and my two sisters, had an extreme impact on me, and how I viewed femininity. My Mother, extremely proud of us all, held no reservations, no expectations of gender, and was open to anything we wanted to try as children to establish an identity for ourselves; a true gift in which not everyone is exempt to. Growing up in a household that was flexible and fluid about personal identity and gender, I found this to be an extremely influential gendering institution.